Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, poked a finger into the hornet’s nest yesterday when he voiced some unpleasant truths about Islam, and about the Muslim fifth column in the West. Now he’s going to face the usual seething swarm of Islamists accusing him of “racism” and hatred: Muslims hit back following attack by Carey.

British Muslims reacted with anger yesterday at an attack on Islamic culture delivered by Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Muslim leaders said his claim that moderates had failed to condemn suicide bombers was totally unjustified, and rejected his assertion that Islam, over the past 500 years, had displayed a “strong resistance to modernity”.

In a public lecture in Rome on Thursday evening, Dr Carey had also criticised the “glaring absence” of democracy in Muslim countries and said Islamic culture had contributed “no great invention… for many hundred years”.

Manzoor Moghal, chairman of the Federation of Muslim Organisations in Leicester, said Dr Carey’s statement was “disastrous” for relations between Christians and Muslims.

“He has fallen prey to the campaign tactics of racists in this country,” he said.

As to the suggestion that Muslim leaders were not doing enough to criticise terrorists, Mr Moghal said it was “nonsense”.

“We condemn suicide bombers, we go on radio, on television, we have made statements. What more can we do?

”We cannot be responsible for the criminal actions of others - they are not under our control. The former archbishop has got it wrong.“

Notice: Manzoor Moghal says they go on radio, TV, make statements, etc., to ”condemn suicide bombers.”

But he didn’t actually condemn anything right then, while he was being interviewed for the media. It’s a standard Islamist front group tactic to whine that they have condemned terrorism, many times—it’s just that the media ignores it. And how dare you ask them to do it again?